Disable Instant Search in Outlook 2007

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How to disable/remove/hide Instant Search in Outlook 2007 programmatically?
Is there any event that get fired when I press enter after entering search
word in Instant Search text box?

Any help related to this topic will be appreaciated.

Thanks in Advanced.
 
You would have to disable Instant Search via the registry, before Outlook
starts. That would completely disable it for all Outlook functions however,
so you then end up crippling any search functionality that requires Instant
Search.

There are no events like you want.

An alternative would be to remove the various buttons, menu items and ribbon
controls used to open an instant search but that would require designing
your own ribbon from scratch and users could still add that functionality
back via the QAT.
 
It has been taking whole lot of time to build the indexing and overloading
exchange server and morever, we have to install WDS to make it work. We have
disable the indexing but still users are complaining that Instant Search is
not working (ofcourse).

It would be nice if you could point me out the registry entry that I could
reset to disable Instant Search Text box or is there any Redemption event
that get fired when user press enter after inserting some search word in
Search TextBox?

Do we have any Windows API for it if it doesn't supported in Outlook object
model?

Thanks.
 
Thanks Ken for your reply.

It would be nice if you could point me out the registry entry that I could
reset to disable Instant Search Text box.

I came to know that Outlook object model doesnt support Search Start event
but we can catch that event using Windows API. Could you please suggest me
some resource to read about this?

Thanks.
Paresh
 
An alternative would be to remove the various buttons, menu items and ribbon
controls used to open an instant search but that would require designing
your own ribbon from scratch and users could still add that functionality
back via the QAT.
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Ken, this would also works for me. Could you please tell me how to start
with this.

Thanks for being there.
Paresh
 
I have no idea about what window is being created when a search is started,
use Spy++ to find that out and then you can possibly close the window using
Win32 API calls. But I have no idea how that will interact with Outlook
itself, you'd have to experiment.

Look at the Outlook team blog for an article that appeared just the other
day about how the Google Apps Sync disables search, there's information
there about the registry settings.
 
Google for "ribbon start from scratch" or something like that to find a
number of articles on how to do that.
 
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